NEW HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 3901 37TH ST N, in ST PETERSBURG, Florida, NEW HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary-level community that instructs 666 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by PINELLAS.

NEW HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 151 schools operated by PINELLAS, a district that instructs 87,955 students overall.

Looking at the student body, NEW HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 27% Black, 21% White, 9% Asian, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Pinellas County (around 45%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NEW HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.0%, the actual is 50.2%, a residual of +5.1 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Pinellas County put the typical household earns roughly $72,646 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Pinellas County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), of which NEW HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

LEALMAN INNOVATION ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NEW HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, NEW HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. NEW HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 17% since 2018, when it stood at 799 (now 666). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 20% to 36%.

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